Winter Countryside with Snow
1885 Oil on canvas 19.5×32 cm Frulli Family Collection This luminous image fixes the melting snow in a mountain landscape where an old, severe tree stump seems to take on the role of historic memory compared to the stand of new-growth trees waving in the distance. A late work by
View of the Bay of Naples
1880 Oil on wooden palette 19.5×32 cm Frulli Family Collection During the months he spent in Naples, Aldi painted numerous landscapes sketched on small palettes to record in the moment particularly evocative views, whether for their effects of color or light or perspective, with the idea of using them later
Portrait of a Girl
1886 Oil on canvas mounted on wood 17×30 cm Frulli Family Collection The facial features here seem to be the same as the young girl honored with the palette on display here (inv. 57) and in a drawing of 1886 accompanied by an affectionate dedication, suggesting that she was the
Allegory of the three Arts: Painting, Architecture, Sculpture
1872 Oil on canvas 25.5×58.6 cm Frulli Family Collection With this work Pietro Aldi won the 1872 annual competition for demonstration of invention in painting at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Siena. The contest was the culmination of the students’ academic career in which they were expected to demonstrate
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